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biceps | null |

As nouns the difference between biceps and null

is that biceps is biceps while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

biceps

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.
  • * 1901 , Michael Foster & Lewis E. Shore, Physiology for Beginners? , page 73
  • The leg is bent by the action of the flexor muscles situated on the back of the thigh, the chief of these being called the biceps of the leg.
  • Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
  • * 1996 , Robert Kennedy & Dwayne Hines II, Animal Arms? , page 21
  • The arm muscles are the show muscles of the physique. When someone asks to "see your muscles," they are most likely referring to your arms, and more specifically, your biceps .
  • (informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
  • *
  • * 2005 , Lisa Plumley, Once Upon a Christmas? , page 144
  • Biting her lip, she held his biceps for balance and waded farther.
  • (prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)
  • * 1987 , Martin Litchfield West, Introduction to Greek Metre
  • Also it is advisable to distinguish this ( ? ? ) — ? ? — rhythm, where the princeps was probably shorter in duration than the biceps (as in the dactylic hexameter), from true (marching) anapaests, in which they were equal.
  • * 2000 , James I. Porter, Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future , page 347
  • This means that in the metrical sequence

    Usage notes

    * Now often mistaken as a plural form; see bicep. An archaic plural bicipites, borrowed from the Latin, also exists.

    Synonyms

    * (the biceps brachii) biceps brachii, biceps cubiti * (the upper arm) guns, pythons, upper arm

    Antonyms

    * (prosody) princeps

    Derived terms

    * bicep * biceps curl

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----